Connect the Dots: Drum
Connect the dots to reveal a hand drum. A fun printable dot-to-dot activity for kids. This picture has 8 numbered dots, from 1 to 8, in the Music theme.
Need a starting point? Read the illustrated dot-to-dot guide.
About this picture
A tall hand drum, the kind you play by tapping the top with your fingers and palms.
The eight dots make the drum's body: two straight sides and a flat top and bottom, with each of the four corners trimmed off.
Talk about it: Can you tap out a beat on the table: slow, then fast, then loud, then quiet?
- Dots: 8, joined by 7 numbered lines. That is tied for the 2nd fewest dots of the 33 pictures, along with sailboat, kite, wizard hat and flying kite.
- Path: dot 1 is at the top left of the picture and the numbers go clockwise around the drum. The page stops at dot 8, so draw one more line from 8 back to 1 to close the outline. It is shorter than most of the numbered lines.
- Shape: the finished outline is about 1.5 times as tall as it is wide.
- Mirror line: fold the picture down the middle and the two halves match. No dot sits on the fold, and the other dots make four mirror pairs, like 1 and 2.
- Line lengths: the longest numbered line is from 3 to 4 and the shortest is from 2 to 3. The long one is about 7 times as long.
- Straight lines: of the 8 lines, two go straight across and two go straight up and down; the other 4 slant. A ruler helps with the straight ones.
- Corners: there are no sharp turns or square corners; every turn is gentle, so the outline looks rounded.
- Next picture: for fewer dots, try the house (7 dots); for more dots, try the crown (9 dots).